linux-kernel - [PATCH 33/50] KVM: MMU: Disable write access on clean large pages

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Date:	Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:51:18 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: [PATCH 33/50] KVM: MMU: Disable write access on clean large pages

By forcing clean huge pages to be read-only, we have separate roles
for the shadow of a clean large page and the shadow of a dirty large
page.  This is necessary because different ptes will be instantiated
for the two cases, even for read faults.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
---
 drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
index e07cb2e..4538b15 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
+++ b/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -382,6 +382,8 @@ static u64 *FNAME(fetch)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t addr,
 			metaphysical = 1;
 			hugepage_access = walker->pte;
 			hugepage_access &= PT_USER_MASK | PT_WRITABLE_MASK;
+			if (!is_dirty_pte(walker->pte))
+				hugepage_access &= ~PT_WRITABLE_MASK;
 			hugepage_access >>= PT_WRITABLE_SHIFT;
 			if (walker->pte & PT64_NX_MASK)
 				hugepage_access |= (1 << 2);
-- 
1.5.3.7

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